Hotel for insects for the Town Hall of the 13th Arrondissement of Paris. Grands Moulins park, Paris 13th. April 2011. Handcrafted by Seewhy studio – Bruno Clanet and Jean-Kanora You.

In a growing desire to favor biodiversity in urban spaces, cities install more and more hotels for insects in the form small wood constructions that serve as breeding ground. Bearing this in mind, the Town Hall of the 13th Arrondissement of Paris asked us to design a hotel for insects.

We wanted this objet to be reminiscent and to evoke emotion. We want to bring to light this minuscule and invisible universe in constant movement. Our aim is to give passersby's imagination a chance to work, to awaken curiosity with a spectacular and noticeable object. We thought "Insectopia" as a city for insects where different species cohabit. It is an accumulation of small chestnut houses that generate an aesthetic prone to put imagination to work.